now ain't this the truth

[shag766]

how did we ever make it this far. lol ottytrain3:



Black and White
(Under age 40? You won't understand.)


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_1_081E8FD8053C88A800798E6BCA2579A2You could hardly see for all the snow,
Spread the rabbit ears as far as they go.



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cid:_2_081E91DC053C88A800798E6BCA2579A2My Mum used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread mayo on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't seem to get food poisoning.

Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag, not in ice pack coolers, but I can't remember getting e.Coli.

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cid:_1_081E93E0053C88A800798E6BCA2579A2Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then.

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cid:_2_081E95E4053C88A800798E6BCA2579A2We all took PE ... and risked permanent injury with a pair of Dunlop sandshoes instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors. I can't recall any injuries but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we are now.

We all said prayers in school and sang the national anthem, and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention.

I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of myself.

I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations.

Oh yeah ... and where was the Benadryl and sterilisation kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed!

We played “King of the Hill” on piles of gravel left on vacant construction sites and when we got hurt, Mum pulled out the 48 cent bottle of mercurochrome (kids liked it better because it didn't sting like iodine did) and then we got our arse spanked.

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Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10 day dose of a $49 bottle of antibiotics and then Mum calls the Attorney to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat.
To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a dysfunctional family.

How could we possibly have known that?

We never needed to get into group therapy and anger management classes.

We were obviously so duped by so many social ills, that we didn't even notice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac!

How did we ever survive?

LOVE TO ALL OF US WHO SHARED THIS ERA. AND TO ALL WHO DIDN'T, SORRY FOR WHAT YOU MISSED.
I WOULDN'T TRADE IT FOR ANYTHING!


Pass this to someone and remember that life's most simple pleasures are very often the best.

 

[440+6]

Thanks, it's so true
I'm sure we had more fun growing up before cell phones and computers than kids today could ever imagine.

 

[62Furious]

Thanks for your veiw on life, thoughs were the days when your parents yeld at you to get out of the house and play in the street

 

[moparsteve636]

No truer words were spoken! I'm glad I grew up then and not growing up in this day and age!!!!!!!

 

[RustyRatRod]

We used to play war with green HEAVY pine cones and sweetgum balls. Them things hurt like hell. The girls were always stupid and wore shorts.

 

[tpodwdog]

very true....the 70's are looooong gone....kids today are wussies...we bled all over the playground before we were FORCED to go see the school nurse. i have a childhood story for yas....this is how brazen we were :

back when i was a kid, i lived in a developing trailer court. ( yeah you heard it right). there were piles of mud, dirt, you name it. me and a few friends decided to have a battle. my one buddies threw a mudball filled with gravel at me at FULL THROTTLE, like a major league pitcher. that thing hit me right on the forehead so freekin hard, i can still remember the sound it made....THHHHHHHHWAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP. to this very day i carry that battle scar with a piece of gravel imbedded in my forehead thats still there ( since 1974 ). so if youre ever out and see bigfoot with a big lump on his forehead....thats me...... its there for one reason....coz i never told my mother, picked up a ball of dirt and continued the battle with never a word said . i love the 70's !

 

[bulldog]

shag766, You brought me back to my youth. The kids today have no idea what they are missing out on.

 

[roadrunnerman]

We didn't have battles with mud and gravel. We used exploding bottle rockets.

 

[tpodwdog]

We didn't have battles with mud and gravel. We used exploding bottle rockets.

lol....we were poor.....it said "trailer court':headbang:

 

[440RUSH]

So true, Just think we didn't have sun screen and we didn't wear helments and knee pads when we rode our bikes. Anyone rember BB gun fights , those were the best fun boys could have. And we didn't have car seats,I rember standing on the front bench seat and when dad or mom slammed on the brakes you got a forearm in the face. Old school child restraint! Hard to belive the human race survived.

 

[tpodwdog]

too much emphasis on safety anymore....no wonder kids are such pussies. we were the dare devils with Schwinn bikes...and 10 speeds....remember them ? EVERYBODY WANTED TO BE EVIL KNEVIL ! wrist rockets?...big fun right there. ANYTHING in the house became a lethal missile. how 'bout YARD DARTS? man i could go on and on with the fun things we had as kids that are now OUTLAWED.

we grew up in a classic time ...but at the time we didnt know it ! if you were poor,,,you had no idea you were poor coz ya didnt have anyone telling you that you were. saturday morning cartoons.......classic sitcoms that didnt shove race or equality or gay rights down your throat....just funny stuff. do you think Archie Bunker would be allowed on tv today?....i doubt it ! im building a time machine DAMMIT im going back to the 70's!

 

[Roadbird]

You could say that again and that's the truth. I kinda missed taking the old 1961 Buick station wagon off roading with my older brother. It just couldn't flip though? Car could sure fly off our motocross jump. Yeah we kinda destroyed that car thoroughly through the months what a blast. Thanks for posting, missed those days. I was like 13 or 14 in those days.

 

[snakeyes]

:thinker::icon_thumright:

 

[99ss]

Although in the early 70's I did have to take an anger management class... I was the school bully..LOL
BUT I only beat up people who picked on me. The psycologist asked me why I fight and I told him. If they didnt pick on me I wouldnt beat them up. He agreed and taught me how to play chess. I was in 5th grade.

 

[Lowhound]

The 70s is where its at. We only got 3 TV channels & had to get up to change it. While another person told you when to stop turning the anteana outside. Hey tpodwdog if you get that time machine built bring me back a couple of Hemi Bees & Road Runners back with you please.

 

[ram250098]

Every time I am in the drug store I look for that bottle of mercurochrome hoping one day it will appear before me and I will buy every bottle they have LOL
Thanks for the flash back Shag
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